Sentence examples for tough killer from inspiring English sources

Johnson, however, paints him as a rough, tough killer who, among other things, had been "primarily responsible for the brutal torture inflicted on MK dissidents in camps such as Quatro" (though control of the detention camps fell under the department of security and intelligence of which - so far as I am aware - Modise was not a member).

The Chinese leader memorably shared this view with a 1957 gathering of world communist bosses in Moscow, alarming even that grisly assembly of toughs and killers.

The sexual symbolism is far from subtle -- the Balinese word for cock means hero, warrior, lady killer, tough guy -- but there is more going on here.

FILM: DELON RETROSPECTIVE -- In 75 films made in 50 years, he has gone from pretty boy to tough cop, contract killer, thief and ex-con.

Her remains were brought here when invaders threatened Constantinople where she was martyred by the Emperor Diocletian – a tough soldier, prodigious killer of Christians, and a local boy made good (he was born in Solin in modern Croatia).

This innocent abroad in a world of danger is clearly going to be someone's lunch soon, so it is his apparent good fortune to chance upon Silas, played by Michael Fassbender, a tough traveller and seasoned killer.

It's expensive, a productivity killer and tough on families.

But the two affectless teenage killers are tough nuts for an audience to crack.

Nothing against the Phillies, those tough-minded Mets killers, and the Rays, whose improbable and impressive worst-to-first dream continues another day, at least.

But forecasting the arrival of killer applications is tough.

Their regime is tough – six-hour rides with killer one-hour "threshold sessions" with 20-minute loops, where the riders go all-out uphill in different locations.